WELNET®, provided by Focused Fitness, is a web-based software program used to assess and report student fitness and health through a collection of Modules. WELNET® enables educators to measure the fivecomponents of physical fitness, check for understanding of fitness and health concepts, monitor motor skill development and track health-related habits, behaviors and attitudes. WELNET® provides analysis of longitudinal datatrends and supports improved instruction, student learningand personal fitness.
WELNET® is designed, programed, sold and supported by oneorganization; Focused Fitness, providing one-stop accountability and responsibility!
There are two versions of WELNET® to fit your specific needs; the WELNET® DS (District-wide Solution) providing access and support for your entire district; and the WELNET® SSS (Single School Solution) implemented within a single building, including the same functionality and reliability as its big brother!
WELNET® will simplify the process of gathering current student data while providing longitudinal data for comparison and analysis. It allows your teachers and administrators to print individual and group reports and analyze results from any internet-enabled device. Focused Fitness provides the hosting and support so there is no servers or hardware to purchase or maintain, nor software to support and upgrade. All Module enhancements, additions and new features are made available to all current users, at no additional cost, so there is never a need to install new versions.
What data can be captured and stored? Both versions of WELNET®--the DS and the SSS—provide a full range of functionality and customization capability, collecting and storing fitness testing scores through multiple trials, student goal setting and fitness plans, written assessment results, six different types of self-reporting behavior logs, survey results from both custom and nationally recognized surveys, motor skills progress and mastery and data collected via wearable devices.
Who inputs the data? Student rosters are uploaded and automatically updated from the district’s student information system for the District-wide Solution—we’ve worked successfully with dozens of district SIS to accomplish these uploads—or easily uploaded from a spreadsheet into the Single School Solution. Some data scores are input by teachers for quality assurance. Goal setting, fitness planning and self-reporting behavior logs are input by students as assigned, in addition to on-line assessment responses. Districts can stipulate teacher or student data entry in some areas.
Who can access the data?Districts direct their own “permissions” for who can enter and see the data; commonly a Student/Parent view of individual data, a Teacher’s view of their own classes, a Building view of all student and teachers within one building and the upper-level Administrative view of an entire district. Raw data extracts are available, upon request, for State and Grant analysis and reporting.
Who owns the data? The school district owns the data, guaranteed by the WELNET® Service Agreement, while the Focused Fitness WELNET® System provides data management, reporting, storage and 24/7 access from any internet enabled device including hand-held devices. Data can be viewed or shared in a variety of WELNET® reports, parent outreach letters with printed version and email capability as well as exported into PDFs and spreadsheets.
WELNET® provides a variety of tools (Modules) to support quality Physical Education and has the ability to be customized so you are collecting the data you specifically want. The reliability and flexibility of the WELNET® System include:
Hardware/Software Requirements
- Access by students, parents, teachers and administrators with any internet-enabled device, 24/7 from any location in the world with web access
- Supported operating systems: Windows, Macintosh, Linux
- Supported browsers:Windows: Internet Explorer 7, 8, 9 & 10, Firefox, Chrome, OS X (MAC); Safari, Chrome
- Free Apps for Apple, Android and Kindle devices
- No installation required - No computer server to purchase or software version to install—no planned “obsolescence” and the need to upgrade
- Telephone and email support for all teachers and administrators available – no additional district technical support necessary
- Reliable: Providing concurrent access for hundreds of districts, thousands of teachers and millions of students
Fitness Measurement Module
- Fitness Measurements and Standards are customizable – districts may choose any combination of fitness measurements and number of phases/trials and can be different for various levels
- Automatically calculated values can be included; BMI, VO2Max
- Students can view their fitness scores and enter their own goal values, create fitness plans and enter SMART goals which can be viewed by the teacher
- Standards can be minimum values, maximum values or a range of values
- Fitness measurements can be marked as adapted scores, medical excuse or not tested
- Fitness Reporting
- Fitness Measurements Reports – class reports, summaries by class, by teacher, by school and /or by district, historical reports by year
- Phase Comparison Reports – utilize a wide variety of criteria to create comparison reports by class, by teacher, by school and /or district
- Student/Parent Fitness Report – current year data, historical data for each year participating, comparison to fitness standards, letter/text customized by the customer with district logo included, can be made available in multiple languages
- Previous Score Report – view previous fitness scores organized into a current student roster
Cognitive Assessment Module
- Designed to be used in concert with Five for Life®materials or independently to assesses student understating of fitness, health and nutrition concepts
- Ability to create custom assessments from question bank and create your own questions
- Students can access assessments from any internet enabled device
- Multiple choice and true/false questions, answered online, are scored automatically
- Short answer and extended response questions can be viewed and scored easily
- Ability to manually enter scores from hard copy assessments for historical tracking
- Assessment Reporting
- Item Analysis – identify comprehension or deficiencies, improves instruction
- Summary Report – view and print by class, by teacher and by assessment type
- View & Print Scores – total points and percentage scores for each student’s assessment
- Export to Spreadsheet Format – for additional review, manipulation or uploading
Behavioral Logs Module
- Compile student data to demonstrate how daily choices and behaviors affect wellness throughsix log types; fitness, nutrition, sleep, hydration, pedometer and mileage tracking
- Supports creation of individual fitness plans and student portfolios
- Parallels the Five for Life®materialsand is powerful enough to be used as a stand-alone instructional tool
- Teacher directed student access, length of tracking and availability of logs
- Students can access logs from any location with any Internet-enabled device
- Behavioral Logs Reporting
- View & Print – Individual student and class summaries
- Automatic Calculations – Averages, classification totals, units of measurement
- Student/Parent Letter – Provides outreach and fitness planning guidance
Motor Skills Module
- Allows teachers to quickly and accurately assess a student’s mastery in a variety of motor skills with three scoring options
- Districts will customize the set-up of selected motor skills and mastery points according to their own unique assessment plans
- Rubric system includes pre-loaded definitions, critical elements and descriptors with the ability to modify as needed
- Motor Skills Reporting
- Summary Reports—provides valuable information to teachers, administrators, parents and students about the progress students are making on mastering motor skills from Kindergarten to 12th grade
- Detail Reports—provide detailed information on the critical elements students have mastered on each skill assessed
Survey Module
- Online surveys for students, committees and teachers
- National surveys include Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), Survey of Physical Activity and Nutrition (SPAN), Panorama Student Perception Survey
- Ability to create custom surveys using district created questions and questions from National surveys
- Aggregated survey data results available for teachers and administrators
- Results can be extract for analysis by researches and evaluators
Data Analysis Module for Administrators
- Provides administrators with the needed data showing the completion rates of selected required program elements and historical comparison reporting
- Provides the ability to create customized reports with graphs, data tables and text across a variety of data points including the ability to compare multiple variables and historical data
- Administrative reporting, by building, by teacher, by class, by district as a whole and by grade levels across a district
- Reports can be generated by grade level, gender, age, school year, term (quarter, semester, yearlong) and selected schools or district wide and can be generated by choosing the appropriate phase (pre, post, mid, etc.)
- Compile Quantity and Percent scored report for each Module in use
- Identify gaps in recording entries
Online Learning Module (Student Portfolio 1 & 2) for Secondary
- Maximize activity time in class by allowing students to complete assignments, readings and assessments online
- Easy to use format includes unit guidelines, vocabulary, activity directions, key assignments, assessment and community outreach opportunities
- Content from Student Portfolio Series 1 and 2 includes Five Components of Fitness, FITT Principle, Goal Setting and Behavior Logs. All units include assignments that require reflection by students on behaviors
- Formative and Summative assessments included in all units
- Choose the course length, order, content and assignments
- Establish pre-requisites and availability dates
- Students can access from any location with an internet-enabled device
- Student Portfolio Reports
- Up to the minute display of student progress and scores
- Auto scored assessments relayed into Grade book or export to spreadsheet or PDF format
- User Reports shows each student’s time and frequency in the system
Wearables Module
- Use wearable devices to understand how active your students are both in and out of class
- Set-up of wearable devices in WELNET® module with all data from wearable devices stored in WELNET®
- Step by step directions for device set-up for students including links to needed software
- Easy to read graphs for students to understand their movement
- Reports for teachers include daily and weekly summary data
- Daily or weekly goals can be set for students to achieve
- Current wearable devices in the module: Movable (Gen2 and Gen3) and Polar devices (Loop, Loop2, A300, M400, V800 and A360) with additional in negotiation
Physical Education Level 1 & 2 Virtual Courses
- Online and Hybrid Classes for High School
- Mobile responsive design
- Completed online in a fully virtual course format
- Aligned to National SHAPE America Standards
- Integrates with wearables
- Course content is built in a progressive format from Unit to Unit and Lesson to Lesson
- Multi-media lessons include video, text, graphics and the ability for teachers to upload additional resources
- Fitness Assessments are integrated into courses
- Integrated behavior logging (Activity, Hydration, Nutrition, Sleep, Pedometers) with supporting curriculum
- Motor Skills Unit allows for viewing of rubrics and self-analysis of selected skills
- Additional learning features include; customizable course outlines, discussion forms, self-reflections, content webbing, social media interactions, creation of personalized workouts, student upload of video performances, community investigations and Family/Friend activities
Historical Data
- Historical data, K-12, is available for teachers, students, parents and administrators
- Scores move with students in the system, even as they change schools in your district
- Ability to import historical data from other software systems
Data Extraction Services
- Items are available for de-identified raw data extraction and analysis for State and grant reporting
- Administrative reports can be run for multiple school districts as needed by consortiums, researchers and evaluators
Security of Data
- Password protected login
- Access to class data is established on a per-school or per class basis
- WELNET® is backed up offsite, daily to ensure against loss of data
- Data security is ensured to meet HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act) and FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act)
- Policies are in place to ensure security of data including Security Audit Policy, Data Disposal Policy and Privacy Policy
- Guaranteed by WELNET® Services Agreement between Focused Fitness and the specific district
WELNET® provides a tool to gather and retrieve longitudinal student health and fitness data in a reliable, proven, simplified internet-based approach. Analyzing information in WELNET® helps your students become aware of their behaviors and how the lifestyle choices they make can impact their current and future health and fitness.
WELNET®helps your teachers to improve instruction and provides data to document their contribution to student learning. It provides administrators with data confirmation of program impacts and changing needs.
WELNET® has been successfully implemented by hundreds of school districts across the US including many Districts in the AHPERD/SHAPE Southern District and Simpson, MS. Kim Cooke () and Nancy Sutton () are both satisfied long-term users of WELNET® and attest to its flexibility and reliability.
“For us, WELNET® speaks LOUDLY to our teachers, administrators, parents and the community,” says Kim Cooke. “By having local data documentation from our own district, we can justify requests for funding, grant applications and to rally support of increased PE time. We have the resources for our teachers to show student growth for their evaluations. We also use it for benchmarks and comparisons to inspire program improvement…powerful data from the multitude of WELNET® tools, (Modules).”
WELNET® will assist in collecting and analyzing information to improve the fitness and health of your students.For additional information, demonstrations and references, please contact JabètWheeler, Sales Specialist at Focused Fitness, 509-327-3181 x 134 or .
2426 S. Dishman Mica Rd. Spokane, WA 99206 Phone 509.327.3181 Fax 509.927.8551